what are the latest discoveries in the field of cytology
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1) Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch Shopkeeper who looked at pond water using a simple microscope, observed "animalcules"(unicellular organisms), and was the first person to see living things.
2) Robert Hooke
English Scientist who looked at cork using a crude compound microscope, observed many tiny boxes and coined the term "cell" after tiny rooms, and was seeing the walls of dead cells, not living cells.
3) Matthias Schleiden
German Botonist who noticed all plants seemed to be made of tiny units - cells.
4) Theodor Schwann
German Scientist who observed animal tissue; stated cells were the building blocks of both plant and animal cells, noted many similarities between plant and animal cells, stated that there were many different types of cells.
5) Rudolf Virchow
German Physician who concluded that cells are produced only from other living cells.